posted at 6:31 pm on July 21, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Blergh. I apologize in advance for my intellectual prudery — I realize that Jimmy Fallon’s show is meant to be lighthearted, late-night comedy — but that’s precisely what irks me about this. Thanks to advances in the natural gas industry, largely made possible by the decades-old practice of hydraulic fracturing, the world is witnessing amazing environmental and economic achievements. The far-reaching impacts of this evolving industry are potentially enormous, and when any Americans who watched this show are likely going to walk away from it with an argument against fracking in their heads, the substance of which amounts to arguably humorous sexual innuendo… I just can’t let that stand without saying something.

I watched the fracking-relevant clip of Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon interviewing with Mr. Fallon before their little protest ditty (it’s the second clip here), and learned that Mr. Lennon has started a website, ArtistsAgainstFracking.com. It’s meant to be a portal to point you toward resources like the (widely debunked, journalistically misleading, and highly melodramatic) documentary Gasland from certifiable activist Josh Fox. And just look at all of those awesome artists, celebrities, and musicians who are standing against fracking, too — all of this compelling persuasion is just overwhelming me! Farther down the page, they query: ‘How can they do this; isn’t this against the Safe Drinking Water Act?’ Answer: Because not even the impossibly zealous, ideology-driven Environmental Protection Agency can find a solid reason to outlaw fracking.

Environmentalists tend to loathe on principle any industrial practice that even appears to ‘violate’ Mother Earth, but if they’d pull their heads out of the eco-trendy sand and bother to do some actual research, they might come to realize that not only is the natural gas industry creating jobs, creating wealth, and revitalizing economically-distraught communities; but as Jazz posted earlier, it’s very likely helping us reduce our carbon emissions. For heaven’s sake, greenies — quit shooting yourselves in the foot and assuming that environmental quality and economic prosperity are mutually exclusive. They aren’t.

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Given Yoko’s popularity among the masses, you’d think if this video gets out and receives widespread attention, New Yorkers will be banding together by the end of next week to demand Andrew Cuomo authorize hydrollic fracking in Central Park.

Sorry but after seeing this video* of Yoko I just cannot bear to watch or hear her. To think she is a one percenter almost makes me want to run in the streets screaming…
*Warning This clip is best viewed with a blind fold and ear plugs

The Facade of Climate Change
For the leftists and econuts climate change is just a pretense. Yes, they could care less whether the climate changes. They’ve got something they want, and that’s to cut industrial society to the bone.

“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into the Stone Age, where we might live like Indians…” -Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States…” -John Holdren, O’s Science Czar

And the key is energy: cut the lifeline of energy, and society withers. So it’s predictable that almost all of them oppose CO2 friendly forms of energy like fracking and nuclear. It’s not about CO2 for them, as CO2 is just a means to an end, and that end is to end industrial civilization, if they can. (And, arguably, CO2 doesn’t effect climate anyways: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg)
What about their support for solar and wind? That’s a facade, a front, something that they can point to and say “look, see, we are not against all energy.” Yes they are. They know, as we do, that costly green energy in the long run is not sustainable, and will have the desired effect of crowding out conventional energy and causing energy prices to rise (to ‘skyrocket’ is their goal, no kidding).

How I despise these people. Living lives of extravagant wealth and privilege, only because they are talented entertainers, a noble thing to be sure, but nothing that bestows upon them any indicator of superior intelligence nor wisdom, yet expecting people to flock to the words and wisdom of the court jesters and adopt their silly visions into policy.

First rule of econuts: any energy-producing tech that works must be opposed. They actually supported natgas a few years ago when it was expensive, but now that it’s cheap, it must be opposed.

If wind worked, they’d hate it because it kills birds. If solar worked, they’d hate it because it uses lots of land in sensitive desert ecosystems. If nuclear fusion worked, they’d oppose it because they heard it could go boom at the last protest meeting. If harnessing unicorn farts worked, they’d oppose it due to cruelty to unicorns.

Yoko Ono? In the words of a less then stllar SNL actor imitating a less then stellar “republican” president, “Not gon’ do it! No sir, not gon’ do it!”
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.need a hint? The initials match up quite amazingly with ……..Dana Carvey and GHW Bush

This idiot made himself look like a tremendous tool with his Give Peace a Chance video just before the first Gulf War – a war which was eventually supported overwhelming by the American People. His video was released just as the war’s popularity peaked.

He thought he was going to look like a populist, but he ended up looking like an irrelevant, backwards, hippie throwback.

Fortunately, this song is incredibly stupid and doesn’t make any sense. He sings “don’t frack my mother” as Yoko dances around with a soft globe while intermittently yelling something incomprehensible.

The Sillywood crowd and other intolerant pseudo intellectuals are always trying to tell us how to live our lives but they don’t want to live the life they demand for us.

As Pogo famously said, “We have met the enemy, and they are us.”

We create these freaks with our hard earned dollars. We sustain their lifestyles and give them the noteriety so the MSM will help spread their unicorn dreams.

By voluntarily giving them our money, we feed their egos. They come to believe that their wealth makes them wiser that everyone else. So wise, in fact, that they need not bother themselves with facts. Whatever they think is the truth.

These people are laughing at us all the way to their banks.

But you can fight back. They have a right to their free speech. We have a right to not buy their products. They can still live off their millions, but they will no longer have their egos and no one will give a rat’s flying potato what they think.

the Earth Law Center, with the goal of furthering nationwide the vision of a philosophy and practice of law that respects the natural world in its own right and recognizes humans as an integral member of the Earth community.

I saw a commercial for this group of tree huggers just yesterday and could not believe my eyes. This is Texas. It scared me because I am noticing more and more of the Californication of Texas – so many forward thinking inhabitants have bailed from there to here.

…There is only one that I know of (that I can’t remember his name) but he’s one of the eco-nuts and rich, but he actually does live what he preaches. I think he’s got like bamboo floors and solar panels and all sorts of stuff. I will at least take him serious because he lives what he preaches…

ButterflyDragon on July 21, 2012 at 7:44 PM

Ed Begley Jr.? He’s the only environmentalist celeb I know of who actually tries to walk the walk.

John Lennon had talent? Who knew? The Beatles were the most over-rated band ever. Most of their stuff could have been written by a 6-year old and the rest is just indecipherable dreck.
Trafalgar on July 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM

The Facade of Climate Change
For the leftists and econuts climate change is just a pretense. Yes, they could care less whether the climate changes. They’ve got something they want, and that’s to cut industrial society to the bone.

“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into the Stone Age, where we might live like Indians…” -Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States…” -John Holdren, O’s Science Czar

And the key is energy: cut the lifeline of energy, and society withers. So it’s predictable that almost all of them oppose CO2 friendly forms of energy like fracking and nuclear. It’s not about CO2 for them, as CO2 is just a means to an end, and that end is to end industrial civilization, if they can. (And, arguably, CO2 doesn’t effect climate anyways: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg)
What about their support for solar and wind? That’s a facade, a front, something that they can point to and say “look, see, we are not against all energy.” Yes they are. They know, as we do, that costly green energy in the long run is not sustainable, and will have the desired effect of crowding out conventional energy and causing energy prices to rise (to ‘skyrocket’ is their goal, no kidding).

That says it all. Mix in the ruthless Alinskyite radicals who stole our country (think Obama / Pelosi / Reid et al) and you have a country on its knees.

For heaven’s sake, greenies — quit shooting yourselves in the foot and assuming that environmental quality and economic prosperity are mutually exclusive.

In the Church of Gaia, this isn’t an assumption. It is doctrine. Any action or event which may result in the economic improvement of an individual or group is ipso facto bad for children, flowers and other living things.

These are the same people who are incapable of recognizing that electric cars are still pollutive, thanks to the powerplants required to produce the electricity to charge the incredibly inefficient batteries. Since they are expensive, slow, small, and inconvenient to humans, they must be good. It is their scripture.

It’s like the whole “growth hormones in cows’ milk” scare the hippies came up with. Growth hormones given to cows don’t spill over into their milk. But the whole thing seems to violate nature so let’s protest against it anyway. Hand me a guitar.